Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uncertain, J.D.R. Jr. started work amid the massive rolltop desks, mustard-colored carpets and bare walls of his father's offices at 26 Broadway, New York. His first jobs there were filling inkwells, deciding the size of the bran bins of the family stables, dispatching a large granite shaft to Cleveland for the family's cemetery plot. Within a few years, however, he began to collect directorships of U.S. Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the National City Bank, Standard Oil of New Jersey and others. Then he lost $1,000,000 on a catastrophic venture into the stock market...
...town consisted of little more than a rundown general store and a couple of bootleggers who sold illicit liquor to passing trappers. Then, with little fanfare, Campbell Chibougamau Mines Ltd. in 1952 sewed up a U.S. Government contract for its output, the next year started to sink a shaft. Last year it went into production, hauling concentrates laboriously by truck to the railroad at St. Felicien, 125 miles to the southeast. With a world shortage driving copper prices towards records (last week's U.S. price: about 40? a lb.), other companies holding long-neglected Chibougamau claims decided to have...
...heard a chilling announcement cut into the Belgian broadcasting system's light-music program: there was trouble at the Bitter Heart, and fire engines, asbestos suits, fire extinguishers were needed. Outside, a 300-ft. plume of bilious-looking yellow smoke was already rising languidly above the mine shaft...
Firemen set to work. "If you use water they may drown," said one. "But if you don't the fire will suffocate them." Fire hoses proved ineffective. Then rescuers equipped with oxygen masks, steel helmets, rubber boots and courage went 400 ft. down one of the shafts, returned with eyebrows singed, rubber boots half melted, and crying, "It is a furnace down there." Other rescuers broke out of a new and untouched shaft into one of the old galleries, brought out three bodies and one injured man. As the ambulance bore the injured man off to the hospital, women...
Last year construction workers digging foundations on the Via Latina, an ancient street branching off the Appian Way, noticed small holes in the earth. The news was passed to the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology, which ordered Engineer Mario di Santa Maria to excavate further. Entering through a shaft bored in the ground, he and his colleagues penetrated an elaborate catacomb, but found that all loose objects of value had disappeared. Fact was that the catacomb had been discovered 20 years before, and covered quietly by the landowners to avoid an official veto on building over...